Today I took some photos of the lake near my house on a short walk I took this afternoon. It was a good day for a walk, cool and mostly dry accept for a very brief sprinkle that left a faint rainbow amidst the grey clouds. I'll post the pictures tomorrow, with witty captions and all!
I also went to Prasad, one of my favorite (though a little over-priced) restaurants in Portland. I thoroughly enjoyed a matcha late and a dragon bowl (quiona, beans, kale, red cabbage, seaweed, and avocado with jalapeno "cheese" made from cashews or something). It felt so nourishing and healthy and inspired me to make similar dishes more often for myself.
After dinner, I went to one of my favorite Portland haunts, Powell's Books. I can spend hours and hours there because I'm a dork and I LOVE books. I got a really cool book which had been mentioned by someone on the Silver Branch Bardic Network. I was randomly looking at a collection of books and I just popped out at me, as if to say, You need me! You want me! At this point, I hadn't even read the title, I just grabbed the thing and realized that it was the book mentioned. It is entitled, Make Merry in Step and Song: A Seasonal Treasury of Music, Mummer's Plays & Celebrations in the English Folk Tradition by Bronwen Forbes. Wow! That's a long title! Anyway, it's contents are perfect inspiration and material for some of the things I've been longing to do for a very long time. So, though it's not direct creative action in terms of producing something, it's a micro-movement (as SARK calls them) in the direction of a creative dream that I have been growing.
Once I made my coveted purchases at Powell's, I joined some friends at a showing of a documentary called, Miss Representation. It explored the media's influence and impact on women and in particular, how it has managed to maintain inequality in political and social arenas between men and women. It was very well done, with a lot of well known public figures having been interviewed and a lot of eye opening statistics. If you can find a way to see this documentary, I highly recommend it. Check out their webpage for more info at http://www.missrepresentation.org/.
After the movie, I gave my friend, who is a singer, a copy of my vision for the women's vocal ensemble I want to create. That was the most solid creative action I took today, in terms of actually doing something. I asked her to look it over and think it over and then we could see if it's something we want to do together! Very exciting!
Whew! That's a lot of inspiration gathering for one day! Now I have some work to do!
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